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The Hill: Democrats on Wednesday rolled out what they said was a major initiative to link Republicans to the Tea Party movement. The Democratic National Committee will unveil a new campaign called the “Republican-Tea Party Contract On America,” a play on the Contract with America, the 1994 campaign platform on which GOP candidates campaigned. The [...]

Muhammed Texaco, Iran’s Gas Man Press TV: Iran’s oil minister has shrugged off sanctions against the country, saying the country will raise its daily gasoline output to 170 million liters in 4 years. “Iran will not beg foreigners for undertaking its oil, gas and petrochemical projects,” Massoud Mirkazemi said on Wednesday at the inaugural ceremony [...]

Race warrior Related: Alinsky’s Race War “The 1,261-word section authored by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) barely registered during the legislative debate. And even weeks after the legislation moved through the House and Senate, Washington groups tasked with protecting business interests on Wall Street and beyond say they have yet to study that part of the [...]

The Independent: Pigs can feel optimistic and pessimistic according to how they are being treated, scientists revealed today. Experts from Newcastle University’s School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development found they were just as likely as humans to feel the glass was half empty or half full, depending on their living conditions, as hogs kept [...]

Haaretz: The Israeli government is refusing to pay the cost of medical care for an American-Jewish activist who lost her eye when Border Guards fired a tear gas canister at her during a demonstration. Emily Henochowicz, who studying at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and also holds Israeli citizenship, took part in a [...]

Press TV: A top Iranian cleric says the US has given “the leaders of sedition” one billion dollars in order to topple the Islamic establishment during last year’s post-election unrest. “I have acquired documents showing that the Americans paid one billion dollars to leaders of sedition through Saudi individuals who are currently the US agents [...]

Washington Times: Russia continued to violate provisions of the 1991 START nuclear-arms treaty up until the agreement expired in December, raising new concerns that Moscow will violate the pending “New START” treaty now being debated for ratification in the Senate. The 2010 State Department report on arms-control compliance, which had been requested by Senate Republicans [...]

Washington Post: RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN — From the deluge of leaked military documents published Sunday, a former Pakistani spy chief emerged as a chilling personification of his nation’s alleged duplicity in the Afghan war — an erstwhile U.S. ally turned Taliban tutor. Now planted squarely in the cross hairs, retired Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul seems little [...]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy to encourage population growth, dismissing Iran’s decades of internationally acclaimed family planning as ungodly and a Western import. The new government initiative will pay families for every new child and deposit money into the newborn’s bank account until they reach 18, effectively rolling [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Without the benefit of their state’s strict new immigration law, officers from a single Arizona county helped deport more than 26,000 immigrants from the U.S. through a federal-local partnership program that has been roundly criticized as fraught with problems. Statistics obtained by The Associated Press show that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office [...]

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MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission called on the government Tuesday to find four Mexican journalists reported missing in or near the violence-wracked northern state of Durango. The journalists include two cameramen from the Televisa network, a reporter for Multimedios television and a reporter for the newspaper El Vespertino. “The lack of [...]

Los Angeles Times: California, joined by New Mexico and three Canadian provinces, outlined a detailed plan Tuesday to curb greenhouse gas emissions in a regional cap-and-trade program by January 2012. The Western Climate Initiative, if it survives political hurdles, would be three times larger than an existing trading system for power plants in 10 Eastern [...]